Comrade Yaroslavsky!

I request that you provide your own assessment and collect detailed reports from all responsible and influential Siberian comrades present here concerning the peasant Yakovenko (it seems, former chairman of the Kansk Soviet, Yenisei province). The reports are needed in considerable detail. For the purpose of discussing the question in the CC concerning Yakovenko's appointment as People's Commissar of Agriculture*.

* See present volume, document 140. Ed.